Back in 5th grade, we had an assignment to write to someone famous and ask for an autograph. I wrote to John Williams and about 9 months later an autographed picture arrived in the mail.

My dad is a teacher and he would take me to the teachers' convention sometimes. When I was very young, the keynote speaker was James Earl Jones (although at that age I probably only knew him as Mufasa).

On Star Wars Reads Day, I was stuck at college, but my mom and my sister went to our local Barnes & Noble to get some of my books signed and met Troy Denning, John Jackson Miller, and Daniel Wallace.

And Timothy Zahn has come to my local B&N at least twice - once for Outbound Flight and once for Choices of One._________________"But it was so artistically done."

“No. I am Ganner. This threshold is mine. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don’t give a damn. None shall pass.”

"Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 1:29 pm

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Darth SkuldrenModerator

Joined: 04 Feb 2008Posts: 6844Location: Missouri

That's cool that you live near a author hotspot. I have to travel pretty far to meet any of them._________________
"I believe toys resonate with us as humans, we can hold them them, it's tactile, real! They are totems for our extended beliefs and imaginations. A fetish for ideas that hold as much interest and passion as old religious relics for some. We display them in our homes. They show who we are. They are signals for similar thinking people. A way we connect with each other...and I guess thats why I do toys. That connection." -Ashley Wood

Posted: Sat Jul 13, 2013 2:51 pm

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GrandMasterMaster

Joined: 26 Aug 2011Posts: 628Location: Earth Jedi Temple

There must be something really special about my Barnes and Noble, because we even had a Julie Andrews book signing once._________________"But it was so artistically done."

“No. I am Ganner. This threshold is mine. I claim it for my own. Bring on your thousands, one at a time or all in a rush. I don’t give a damn. None shall pass.”

"Shaken, not stirred, will get you cold water with a dash of gin and dry vermouth. The reason you stir it with a special spoon is so not to chip the ice. James is ordering a weak martini and being snooty about it."